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Bill de Blasio, Mayor of New York, announced on Wednesday that the city’s public schools, which have an attendance of 1.1 million students, will close again due to a rebound in coronavirus cases.
“New York reached the threshold of an average of 3 percent positive tests over seven days. Unfortunately, this means that public schools will be closed from tomorrow, Thursday, November 19, as a precaution,” the mayor said on his Twitter account .
New York City has reached the 3% testing positivity 7-day average threshold. Unfortunately, this means public school buildings will be closed as of tomorrow, Thursday Nov. 19, out an abundance of caution.
We must fight back the second wave of COVID-19.
– Major Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) November 18, 2020
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“We must fight the second wave of covid-19“he added.
The director of schools, Richard CarranzaHe specified that the classes will be offered only remotely until further notice.
The measure is questioned by many New Yorkers who stress that the positive test rate in schools since their reopening in September is much lower than the average rate in the city.
Others wonder why close schools, with the harm it entails for children, when eating is still allowed inside bars and restaurants, albeit at reduced capacity.
The mayor, however, pledged with the powerful teachers union to close the establishments if the infection rate reached 3 percent for seven days.
New York, which was the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States in April and May, has registered more than 34,000 deaths from covid-19.
Although the city and even the state have a lower rate of positive cases than most of the rest of the country, the number of cases is increasing.
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